Item

Column 1

Use of Area of floor or Roof

Column 2

Minimum Specified Load, kPa

1.

Assembly Areas

4.8

(a) Except for those areas listed under (b), (c), (d) and (e), assembly areas with or without fixed seats including:

Arenas (areas without fixed seats that have backs)

Auditoria

Churches and similar places of worship (areas without fixed seats that have backs)

Dance floors

Dining areas ⁽¹⁾

Foyers and entrance halls

Grandstands (areas without fixed seats that have backs), reviewing stands and bleachers

Gymnasia

Lecture halls (areas without fixed seats that have backs)

Museums

Promenades

Rinks

Stadia (areas without fixed seats that have backs)

Stages

Theatres (areas without fixed seats that have backs)

Other areas with similar uses

(b) Classrooms and courtrooms with or without fixed seats

2.4

(c) Portions of assembly areas with fixed seats that have backs for the following uses:

2.9

Arenas

Grandstands

Stadia

(d) Portions of assembly areas with fixed seats that have backs for the following uses:

2.4

Churches and similar places of worship

Lecture halls

Theatres

(e) Vomitories, exits, lobbies and corridors

4.8

2.

attics

Accessible by a stairway in residential occupancies only

1.4

Having limited accessibility so that there is no storage of equipment or material

0.5

3.

Balconies

exterior

4.8

interior and mezzanines that could be used by an assembly of people as a viewing area

4.8

interior and mezzanines other than above

⁽²⁾

4.

corridors, lobbies and aisles

Other than those listed below

4.8

Not more than 1 200 mm in width and all upper floor corridors of residential areas only of apartments, hotels and motels (that cannot be used by an assembly of people as a viewing area)

⁽²⁾

In a Group B, Division 3 occupancy that contains sleeping accommodation for not more than 10 persons and not more than 6 occupants require assistance in evacuation in case of an emergency

2.4

5.

Equipment areas and service rooms including:

3.6⁽³⁾

Generator rooms

Mechanical equipment exclusive of elevators

Machine rooms

Pump rooms

Transformer vaults

ventilating or air-conditioning equipment

6.

Exits and fire escapes

4.8

7.

Factories

6.0⁽³⁾

8.

Footbridges

4.8

9.

garages for

Vehicles not exceeding 4 000 kg gross weight

2.4

Vehicles exceeding 4 000 kg but not exceeding 9 000 kg gross weight

6.0

Vehicles exceeding 9 000 kg gross weight

12.0

10.

Kitchens (other than residential)

4.8

11.

Libraries

Stack rooms

7.2

Reading and study rooms

2.9

12.

Office areas (not including record storage and computer rooms) located in

basement and the first storey

4.8

floors above the first storey

2.4

13.

Operating rooms and laboratories

3.6

14.

Patients’ bedrooms

1.9

15.

Recreation areas that cannot be used for assembly purposes including:

3.6

Billiard rooms

Bowling alleys

Pool rooms

16.

residential areas (within the scope of Article 1.1.2.2. of Division A)

Sleeping and living quarters in apartments, hotels, motels, boarding schools and colleges

1.9

Work areas within live/work units

2.4

17.

residential areas (within the scope of Article 1.1.2.4. of Division A)

Bedrooms and other areas

1.9

Stairs within dwelling units

1.9

18.

Retail and wholesale areas

4.8

19.

Roofs

1.0⁽⁴⁾

20.

Sidewalks and driveways over areaways and basements

12.0⁽⁴⁾

21.

Storage areas, including locker rooms in apartment buildings

4.8⁽³⁾

22.

Toilet areas

2.4

23.

Underground slabs with earth cover

⁽⁴⁾

24.

Warehouses

4.8⁽³⁾